Tackling an IS Educator’s Dilemma: A Holistic Model for “When” and “How” to Incorporate New Technology Courses into the IS/IT Curriculum

To prepare their students for the rapidly changing and increasingly competitive job market, universities must constantly modify their Information Systems (IS)/Information Technology (IT) program curricula to incorporate relevant and emerging technologies in addition to computing fundamentals. The “haunting” conundrum that faces IS/IT educators is assessing whether an emerging technology is a “game-changing” development or something more transient. In addition, university curriculum approval proposals may be a barrier to timely incorporation of a new course. To solve the dilemma, the authors have developed a holistic model to provide strategic guidance for IS/IT educators to make a valid decision in terms of “when” to introduce a new course on emerging technology and “how” to incorporate the new course into an existing IS/IT curriculum. In addition, the authors present several examples demonstrating how the proposed models to IS/IT curriculum modification and new technology course insertion was useful in their curriculum decisions

Multinational perspectives on information technology from academia and industry

As the term \u27information technology\u27 has many meanings for various stakeholders and continues to evolve, this work presents a comprehensive approach for developing curriculum guidelines for rigorous, high quality, bachelor\u27s degree programs in information technology (IT) to prepare successful graduates for a future global technological society. The aim is to address three research questions in the context of IT concerning (1) the educational frameworks relevant for academics and students of IT, (2) the pathways into IT programs, and (3) graduates\u27 preparation for meeting future technologies. The analysis of current trends comes from survey data of IT faculty members and professional IT industry leaders. With these analyses, the IT Model Curricula of CC2005, IT2008, IT2017, extensive literature review, and the multinational insights of the authors into the status of IT, this paper presents a comprehensive overview and discussion of future directions of global IT education toward 2025